How to use Cordova on Ubuntu to build Android apps

Building native HTML and JavaScript apps for Android can be done with Apache Cordova on Ubuntu.

Download the Android SDK from developer.android.com
Unzip the Android SDK and place the contents of the ‘sdk’ folder in ~/Development/adt-bundle/sdk
Add the SDK to your path
- PATH=$PATH:~/Development/adt-bundle/sdk/platform-tools:~/Development/adt-bundle/sdk/tools
- To permanently add the Android SDK to your Ubuntu path follow this Ubuntu.com article
install Apache Cordova with npm npm install -g cordova (Install nodejs if you don’t have it.)
- cd to your Documents directory and create a helloWorld folder, then cd into that folder
- cd ~/Documents
- mkdir helloWorld
- cd helloWorld
Create a Cordova app and cd to the new folder
- cordova create hello com.example.hello "Hello World"
- cd hello/
Add Android as a cordova platform
- cordova platform add android
Create an Andorid emulator
- android create avd -n hello -t 1
Run the cordova app on the emulator
- cordova emulate android
Build your web app and place it in the www folder, making sure to include config.xml and cordova.js